Gloobus

Gloobus API ?

Asked by Jostein

Would it be possible to use Gloobus as an API for me to get preview-images of files from inside my own applications?

(Keep up the good work! Things are looking good.)

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Best BadChoice (guitarboy000) said : 		#1

Well.. there is no api now, but you can preview you apps running the command gloobus-preview /path/to/file
And then the preview will be launched,

Cause, what would you like the api to do exactly?

BTW wich app are you doing?

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Jostein (josteinaj) said : 		#2

I'm not doing an app at the moment, but I was thinking that it would be useful for comparing different versions of a file to decide which one to keep:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23128/

If something like "gloobus-preview /path/to/file --tostdout > /path/to/img.png" were possible it would probably suffice.

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Jostein (josteinaj) said : 		#3

Thanks BadChoice, that solved my question.

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BadChoice (guitarboy000) said : 		#4

i could give you a pixbuf but, there are files that doesn't use images.. that use text or gtktreelist, or in music a gstreamer stream...

So its hard to provide it...
If you have a better idea we can try to add this feature!

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BadChoice (guitarboy000) said : 		#5

What if I give you a gtkwidget? with the file displayed inside?

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Jostein (josteinaj) said : 		#6

I haven't used GTK before, but I guess it sounds like a good feature. Don't spend too much time on it though, I would prefer a better Gloobus over a gtkwidget or similar :). The application I had in mind don't really need the fancy features that Gloobus has... a pixbuf for supported filetypes would do.

After a bit of googling I found that there's work being done on implementing thumbnail generation over DBus which sounds perfect for what I had in mind. Maybe it would be of use for Gloobus too when it is available.